Home improvement star Zachery Ty Bryan was arrested for the sixth time in five years after the actor violated his probation on a domestic violence charge.
Brian, 44, and his girlfriend, Johnnie Faye Cartwright, 32, were taken into police custody in Eugene, Oregon, on Nov. 29, according to the release. put records in jail Global News review.
The actor is currently being held without bond in the Lane County Jail and is scheduled to be released Dec. 3, jail records show.
While Brian was detained for violating probation due to a previous domestic violence conviction, Cartwright faces multiple chargesincluding one count of driving under the influence, three counts of reckless endangerment and one count of attempted first-degree assault.
It's just the latest in a string of legal troubles for the former child star, who co-starred with Tim Allen and Jonathan Taylor Thomas on the hit sitcom. Home improvement in the 1990s.
FILE: (back row) Blake Clark, Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Canadian actress Pamela Anderson, Richard Karn (front row) Taran Noah Smith, Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Zackery Ty Bryan attend the 18th Annual People's Choice Awards held at Universal Studios Hollywood in March 1992.
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Brian was also arrested in January in Myrtle Beach and charged with second-degree domestic violence.
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According to the police report, received by people On Jan. 6, the arresting officer reported that Cartwright “stated that she was assaulted” by Brian and that they “live together and have children together.”
Cartwright alleged that Brian “choked her and punched her in the face multiple times.”
The officer said the woman had “obvious injuries” to her face, including bruising and swelling.
Brian told the officer that he and Cartwright “had an argument about her drinking” and when he tried to “take the bottle away from her,” she “refused” and was “thrashing back and forth.”
The actor was booked into the Horry County Jail on Jan. 2 on $10,000 bail and released the next day, according to jail records reviewed by Global News.
In February 2024, Brian was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence.
He was arrested in California by officers from the La Quinta Sheriff's Station who were responding to a vehicle suspected of being involved in a traffic accident just after 2 a.m.
Deputies observed “signs of impairment” in the driver, Brian, and arrested him for DUI with priors. He was also charged with contempt of court.
In July 2023, Brian was arrested for assault after police responded to a call regarding a physical dispute at his Oregon home. A few months later, in October, he pleaded guilty to fourth-degree assault and, after taking a plea deal, was sentenced to a week in jail and 36 months of supervised probation.
The sentencing judge ordered that he “must have no contact with the victim without the approval of the probation officer, treatment for alcohol/drug abuse as directed by the probation officer, and no use of alcohol or drugs.”
He collided similar allegations in October 2020when he was arrested in Oregon for assault, threatening, stalking, coercion, strangulation and interfering with a report after a fight with his girlfriend, Cartwright.
The most serious charges against him were dropped in 2020, but he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors — menacing and fourth-degree assault — and was sentenced to prison. three years probationary period.
He was also required to participate in a violence intervention program and prohibited from having any contact with Cartwright.
A mugshot of actor Zackery Ty Bryan following his arrest on October 16, 2020 in Eugene, Oregon, courtesy of the Lane County Jail.
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Speaking about the arrest to The Hollywood Reporter in June 2023, he said: “At the end of the day, (the police) are going to charge you with a bunch of charges because they ultimately want you to beg for something … I could fight it… but it's even more stress and drama. I got two misdemeanors and ended it.”
He also received a warning in 2020 for drunk driving — his fourth drunk driving since 2004.
Brian has seven children with his ex-wife and Cartwright.
— With files from Global News
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